Swami Vidyatmananda Collection 1923-1986

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Swami Vidyatmananda Collection 1923-1986

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The Swami Vidyatmananda Collectioncomprises correspondence to Vidyatmananda as well as correspondence he gatheredthrough his association with the Vedanta Society of Southern California and theCentre Védantique Ramakrishna in Gretz, France. Three distinct groups ofcorrespondence are present: letters between Christopher Isherwood and SwamiVidyatmananda (John Yale), 1950-1986; correspondence to Lady Sandwich (formerlyAmiya Corbin) from Aldous Huxley, John Van Druten, Christopher Isherwood, Walter Dela Mare, E. M. Forster, and Gerald Heard, 1944-1977; and letters to the Frenchdiplomat Martha Vanek from Jan Masaryk, René Fülöp-Miller, and Igor Stravinsky,1923-1930.

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Vidyatmananda, swami, 1913-2000

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Author, monk in Ramakrishna order, born John Yale in 1913. From the description of Swami Vidyatmananda Collection, 1923-1986. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122632908 Swami Vidyatmananda, born John Yale in 1913, underwent initiation and training under Swami Prabhavananda at the Vedanta Society of Southern California. He observed brahmacharya, took sannyas in 1964, and was ordained as a monk in ...